Speaking slowly: Effects of four self-guided training approaches on adults' speech rate and naturalness

American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 163-174

  Logan, Kenneth J ^a   Roberts, Rosalyn R ^a   Pretto, Aneesha P ^a   Morey, Megan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental stuttering; Indirect intervention; Pause duration; Speech naturalness; Speech rate reduction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; RELIABILITY; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH THERAPY; STUTTERING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0036014638     PISSN: 10580360     EISSN: 15589110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1058-0360(2002/016)     Document Type: Article

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